Where do Godwriting words come from?
Bernie asked a lot of great questions on his show. One question was about the choice of words in Godwriting. On the air, Bernie read some quick playful metaphors from a Heavenletter, and he said: "You know, I would never hear from God like that."
I can't for the life of me seem to find those expressions Bernie was referring to, but I know exactly what he means, expressions that are in common speech, not slang exactly, more like lingo, I suppose, informal expressions that we wouldn't expect God to use. And yet He does, through me and sometimes through others.
There are different styles of Godwriting, yet, Godwriting has a common thread. Many times in workshops, when we've been writing as a group, God is basically saying the same thing to us all.
Yes, God's words are filtered through us.
I probably told you before the story before of A.J. who took a workshop. Of course, he was reading Heavenletters every day, which, as you know, are rather flowing. A.J., a busy businessman, told us later that, as he was driving over, he was praying to God! "Oh, please, God, don't make my Godwriting long like Gloria's!"
And A.J.'s Godwriting did come in short takes. A few words from A.J., a few words from God. Back and forth. And, wow, it was powerful. And while A.J. was writing, he was having *E*X*P*E*R*I*E*N*C*E*S* with capital letters!
I believe that our individual Godwriting is a fine tuning from our usual mindset to that special station where we can hear God. It is a tiny tiny switch on the dial.
Whatever our native language, that is the language we're naturally going to hear God in.
Something happened in a Heavenletter recently when someone on the forum pointed out an error of fact. Now, there are typos and such in Heavenletters, a word left out, a word repeated twice etc., and never would I hold God responsible for my typos. They're my mistakes, and I made them. Nor would I hold God responsible for any error in what must come from my faulty memory.
In Heavenletter #2931, Heralding a New Day, which incidentally came out December 3, the day after Bernie's show, it says that the Little Red Hen ran around saying, "The sky is falling."
Connie O. lovingly pointed out on the forum that it was Chicken Little, not the Little Red Hen! http://www.heavenletters.org/heralding-a-new-day.html#comment-13837
Presumably, if I had never read those stories as a child, the point would have come through in another way, and that error would not have been there.
So, yes, Godwriting comes through individuals. How much effect the individual Godwriter has, I don't know. We do our best to keep our filter clear. We do our best to stay out of the Godwriting, and let it be all God's.
While Godwriting, we'd better not ask whether this is from God or not, because it's not in the best interests of Godwriting. That question can only interfere with our listening to God. God isn't asking that question, so it must be our intellect that is, and Godwriting doesn't come from our intellect. Godwriting has to come from what we could call the Unknown.
We can have the reverse situation as well. Once in a while, I've been writing something for this blog, and it just flows, and I've wondered: "Is this writing mine, or is it Godwriting?" Of course, when that happens, it's very nice.
There have been rare times in the personal Godwriting I do -- personal in the sense that I pour my heart out to God and ask about what may be going on with me -- when the flow is so great that I think God is asking the questions as well as giving the answers.
And, I believe there is a Heavenletter in which God says: "Who is the questioner, and who is the answerer?"
And, again, if I remember correctly, He also says the time will come when there are no questions to ask.
What will that be like?!!!
Comments
Interesting to me that you then changed the Chicken Little reference, which I didn't catch. I might have let it stand, tho I would correct errors of spelling or most garbled wording. However there was a recent Heaven Letter where I thought the word "not" was missing and the sentence didn't make sense without it even tho this wasn't blatantly obvious.
I thought about mentioning this to you, and I decided against it. In my experience God sometimes allows "mistakes" or unclear meaning which act as a sort of filter with people who are overly literal and worldly minded. If it was being published in a book I might do otherwise. I suppose in the end it all comes down to doing what seems to make the most sense.
The Christian New Testament scriptures were edited early on both to correct errors in copying and what were perceived to be errors in clarity or meaning. We now have no way to know what was in the original handwritten documents, but that doesn't stop the spirit of truth from coming thru what are fairly minor differences or distortions in the documents we do have.
It also doesn't stop some people from throwing out the baby with the bathwater because of discrepancies or differences in exact wording. God seems to be a lot more tolerant of human error than many people are.
Here is a place I can ask a question I have had for some time. At the end of each Heaven Letter there is a button to press to submit a comment. I did that once but I never saw it appear anywhere. I have never seen comments at the end of a Heaven Letter like there are at the end of your blog entry.
However one time, perhaps two or three months ago, at the end of the Heaven Letter there was a link that said "Continue Reading" or something like that, like there is in the daily Godwriting entry when you first bring it up.
So I pressed it and the Heaven Letter came up again with no further addition, but there was a comment, or comments, can't remember, at the end of it. What I do remember is that English was not the home language of the person making the comment, and it referred to God as Godfather. This was like an "aha!" moment for me and I still think that God arranged that "Continue Reading" link that day just for me. I have no idea whether anyone else could see it.
Sorry to be taking up so much space and time. My question is, why can't I ordinarily ever see comments made about the Heaven Letters? I have poked around and can't find them anywhere. What do you have to do to see them?
First of all, beloved Charles, we want you to say all you want to say and not worry about space here. Take all the space you could possibly want to say all you want to say. We're just so happy that you comment and ask questions. More, more!
When you see an error, or possible error, please do post it on the forum so it can corrected.
Maybe because I'm a former English teacher, I felt a need to correct an error that was brought to my attention. Any error is the receiver's doing (me) and not the One Who delivers the message (God.) God knows what he is doing.
Years ago someone who felt she could muscle-test as well as David Hawkins does tested one Heavenletter, and found it was 98% accurate. She thought that was phenomenal. I can't say whether she was correct or not, yet it is fair to say that any inexactness in a Heavenletter is due to the filter of the person it comes through -- in this case, me. In this Heavenletter, a clear-cut error was made. I made it. However, the error does not affect the intent and meaning of the Heavenletter.
Beloved Charles, I doubt that God makes mistakes. I personally don't feel He would test us in that way. Any error in translation is mine.
Charles, I'm wondering if your posted comment is waiting for me or Santhan or Annette to okay it. I'll have to leave here to check.
Meanwhile, I ask anyone who does post to please tell with exactitude how they do it and how they see all comments afterwards.
With love and blessings,
Gloria
Oh, Charles, poor one, your post reminds me so vividly of the time (last year) when I had to find my way around heavenletters.org.
But there are really only two or three things one has to know. When you click "Heavenletters" in the top row of every page, you are taken to the complete list of all (today) 2936 Heavenletters. Most of them are tucked away in a "pager" (those little squares at the bottom), but the first several lines of the last seven Heavenletters are shown. To read one, you can click either "Continue reading this Heavenletter" or the Headline of the Heavenletter you want. The page that will open now has the complete Heavenletter with - important! - a golden Headline. Whenever you see the golden Headline, you can be sure you have the complete Heavenletter plus whatever comments were made.
Whenever you have a Heavenletter with a golden!! headline, you can be sure it will have either "Be the first to post a comment" or "Add new comment or reply" at the bottom.
If you click "Community" in the top row of every page, you will be shown a list of recent postings. It has four compartments, as you can see. When, for example, you activate"Heavenletter Comments", a click on any link under "Comment Subject" will lead you directly to that comment (and all other comments) under the respective Heavenletter.
I hope this isn't confusing. Please try this and then ask whatever else you need to know.
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About correcting "mistakes", I will repeat myself and say that perhaps we sometimes worry too much about knowing God's intention and acting accordingly. The point is we don't know. I think you are right that "God sometimes allows 'mistakes' or unclear meaning", perhaps even for the reason you suggest. But we don't know and we don't have to know. So yes, " it all comes down to doing what seems to make the most sense" -- or feels best.
Jochen, thanks so much. I was able to find everything you explained. The Heaven Letter I get by e-mail daily and the current Heaven Letter of the day I open with a bookmark in my web browser don't show the comments or an obvious way to get to them.
Gloria, I wasn't implying that God makes mistakes if that's what you thought. In thinking more about what I had considered a typo, I realize that I was being polite in not mentioning it the same as if a friend made a typo in an e-mail to me. No one likes a nitpicker, but that's not valid here.
Because it's a Heaven Letter and intended for publication I should have put on my copyeditor hat and mentioned it right away, even more so because many who read the Heaven Letters are not native English speakers. Anyway, I'll do better if there is a next time.
And I did try finding that particular typo with no success. Maybe you already fixed it, maybe I misread it myself when I first noticed it and it wasn't actually a goof, maybe God reached down with a big pencil eraser, maybe I didn't look back far enough. I'm going to take God's advice here and let the past go.
Beloved Charles, now you know your way around the forum, thanks to Jochen.
I just wanted you to know that I own up to my own errors!
Thank you for all your conscientiousness.